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CLAAASH!
A powerful tail strike hit Hector strongly, crushing him into the ground!
BOOOOMMM!!!
"Aaggh…!" Hector groaned in agony, vomiting a mouthful of blood… The armor also made him unfortunate, so being caught off-guard like this… was to be expected.
"D-Damn it!" Muttered, the slime, quickly dispelling the accursed armor from Hector, as he tried to heal him, but Hector was very bad now, some of his ribs were broken, even!
"Hahh… Ugh… M-Miminga…" Muttered Hector, looking into the night sky, as the giant lizardman slowly approached him, ready to crush him and end his misery…
"GRAKAKAKAKAHH- AKH?!"
However! As the lizardman was laughing over his victory, suddenly, a giant fireball hit him in the head! The blazing fireball began to burn his entire head. Although he was covered in hard scales, this was the second time he was set ablaze, and even his scales began to bend towards the heat, falling off his skin continuously.
BOOOOMMM!!!
"AAAAGGH…!"
The giant lizardman groaned in agony, without being able to bear the pain! This fire was stronger and burned even deeper into his scales, even his eyes started to burn and bleed, and the flames burned the interior of his jaws, making it panic as he began to eat dirt to turn off the flames.
CLAAASH!
The giant lizardman suddenly fell to his knees in surprise and fear, turning off the flames, and looking back at the scene, to find a beautiful lizardman girl mounting an ice wolf alongside another male, her father! This lizardman girl and her father were both wearing amazing armor made of silver dragon scales and a strange crystal-like material that emanated a cold aura around them… All while wielding weapons infused with tremendous quantities of runes, infused with gigantic amounts of magic and mana!
The giant lizardman was part of the Deep Jungle Tribe, a part of the more savage Lizardmen within this tribe who longed for battle even after Larzak unified the tribes using his strength and leadership, the savage lizardmen despised the pastoralists, which this lizardman immediately recognized.
The moment it realized these slimmer and thinner lizardmen were the despised pastoralists, who were said to be "bootlickers" of the people from the outside of the jungle, his face quickly twisted in anger, groaning angrily at them while turning off the flames over his face.
"GRRRRRRHH…!" The giant Lizardman looked hatefully at the pastoralists, as father and daughter looked down on him as if he were a mere monster they were about to hunt down. The giant lizardman felt a slight chill run down his spine as he cowered in fear, moving slightly back, but quickly being taken over by his pride and gritting his teeth in fury, containing this strange chill that made him so fearful of them.
Of course, the two lizardmen in front of him were not mere soldiers, the young and beautiful lizardman girl, with a neck as thin and delicate as that of a snake, and with a snake-like head as well which was considered beautiful by all lizardmen was Miminga, the daughter of the chief, while the man with her was her father, the chief himself, Kraxka!
After Miminga unleashed an enormous storm of meteors over her foes, quickly killing the long-ranged ballista-users of the enemy army, she drank a mana potion made out of Drake's blood, and quickly recovered a large amount of her Mana, she and her father moved forward with the help of the Ice Wolf they were mounting, taking down any enemy they found with weapons on hand and magic, Miminga saw a man clad in black armor fighting a giant general lizardman, as she quickly decided to aid him with her father.
However, the moment they finally reached the human man they intended to help and protect, they found him in the ground, barely about to die as his armor suddenly disappeared, leaving a half-dead human in the floor. Miminga had not recognized this man as the child she once met, but still pitied him, and desired to defeat this enormous giant lizardman to save his life. The more humans they helped, the better their reputation would become, or so said Drake to them!
"This guy is huge… I have never seen a lizardman this immense before… And he took a fireball to the head but he's still alright? What sort of monster is this?" Wondered Miminga. "Father, let's take him down and save that human!" Miminga looked at the poor human in the floor. After having experienced such friendship and even feelings beyond friendship with that one boy in her childhood, Miminga saw humans as people as well, people she pitied, she wanted to save the human as if he were part of her tribe.
Her father, of course, had changed his mind over time, although he once despised humans after what they had done to his own father, the former chief of the Pastoralists, over time, his hate slowly faded away, and only a lingering desire for peace and acceptance stayed within his mind, as he hoped to one day see the lizardmen become an accepted race of people in the world.
Seeing the idea that Drake, their new Scaled God offered to them, Kraxka saw the perfect opportunity to find once more the hopes of befriending the other races, after all, not everybody was like the human that killed his father. Kraxka knew about it because even his daughter had meet such a good human, he developed an open mind over time, and now that it was the golden opportunity his own father had always wanted, he wasn't going to waste it.
"Got it! He already weakened him enough for us!" Said Kraxka. He nodded confidently to his daughter's conviction, as he looked into the giant lizardman, it was weakened and worn down, the giant lizardman might soon collapse out of exhaustion, this was perhaps the best opportunity to take it down while they still could, after all, that human man had indeed weakened him a lot!
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